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decline; the unsustainability of the welfare state in Europe (as well as in the United States, Canada, and Australia); and the apparent exhaustion of Western civilization. Suffused with. . .

Note from Jack: No matter what your opinion is about Islam, you need to read this book because it offers so much thoughtful commentary. It's fast paced, clever and sometimes funny, although the subject matter is deadly serious.

Steyn's trademark wit and piercing insights, this book calls on us to summon the will to fight this great struggle for Western civilization. In America Alone, Mark Steyn provides an enlightening primer to just how bad things are likely to get, and what we must do now to ensure that our children and grandchildren live in the bright light of freedom.

The hidden reason that the problem of Islamic jihad has exploded across the world since 1970

Why the threats that the world faces today should be taken much more seriously than the environmental scare-mongering that has been going on since the 60s (and, thanks to Al Gore, continues)

The likely outcome of today's global situation, in which Islam is militarily weak but ideologically confident -- while the West is militarily strong but ideologically insecure

Disquieting implications of the fact Islam is a religion, not a race or nationality (as it is commonly portrayed in the West) -- and an explicitly political religion at that

Why the liberal talk of finding the "root causes" of terrorism in the errors and excesses of Western foreign policy is so wrongheaded

The correlation between the structural weaknesses of the social-democratic state and the rise of a globalized Islam

Why we are witnessing the end of the late twentieth-century progressive welfare democracy

What is revealed about our civilization by both the non-problems that terrify us and the real problems we pay no heed to

Why Libya's Colonel Qaddafi is probably correct when he says that "there are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests"

How the environmentalist fantasy about the grave ecological threat America poses to the globe actually reveals how unthreatening America really is

Why the problem Europe faces today is not one of race, but of culture

How the willingness to subordinate individual liberty to the primacy of society - as expressed by Nazism, Communism, and more - has blighted Europe for over a century

The dangerous consequences that are likely to come from manifestations of "cultural sensitivity" -- such as the fact that U.S. guards at Gitmo must handle copies of the Koran only when wearing gloves because the detainees regard infidels as "unclean"

Universally ignored: the single most important fact about the early twenty-first century in Western countries

How the terrorist attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 - along with other events such as the murder of Theo van Gogh - were the opening shots of a European civil war

The little-noticed reason why America's European "allies" failed to grasp the significance of September 11

Why the progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both - and how that mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse

Sobering facts about how advanced civilizational suicide already is in Japan and Russia

How mosques in the West serve as recruiters for the jihad and play an important role in ideological subordination and cell discipline

Why the Spanish government was so eager to appease the jihad terrorists after the Madrid bombings of March 2004

How oil isn't the principal Saudi export, Islamic jihad ideology is - and our oil money bankrolls its spread

Why the war against global Islamic jihad will be harder to win the longer it goes on

How Western analysts continue to fall into the error of thinking that if a violent Muslim has no ties to Al-Qaeda, he cannot be a terrorist and poses no threat

Europe's suicidal multicultural malaise -- and why jihadists understand that the Continent is ripe for the taking in a way that America isn't

Why it is so important for Americans and others who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society to understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history

How the ultimate victory of Islam in America can be avoided not by more government but by less: by government returning to the citizenry the primal responsibilities it has taken from them in the modern era